1639-1729Charles Wells Moulton H. Malkan, 1910 |
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Pàgina 9
... whole life in fitting himself for a certain kind of performance ; the critic does not ask why , or whether the performance is good or bad , but if he does not like the kind , he instructs the writer to go off and do some other sort of ...
... whole life in fitting himself for a certain kind of performance ; the critic does not ask why , or whether the performance is good or bad , but if he does not like the kind , he instructs the writer to go off and do some other sort of ...
Pàgina 24
... whole an air of probity and candour , which was the peculiar character of the writer . This history was undertaken by the command of James I. who had a high opinion of the author's abilities . Upon expressing a diffidence to James about ...
... whole an air of probity and candour , which was the peculiar character of the writer . This history was undertaken by the command of James I. who had a high opinion of the author's abilities . Upon expressing a diffidence to James about ...
Pàgina 25
... whole , a faithful and impartial narrative of the events of which it treats . - MILLS , ABRA- HAM , 1851 , Literature and Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland , vol . 1 , p . 467 . It is an honest book , written by a strong ...
... whole , a faithful and impartial narrative of the events of which it treats . - MILLS , ABRA- HAM , 1851 , Literature and Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland , vol . 1 , p . 467 . It is an honest book , written by a strong ...
Pàgina 34
... our long acquaintance with Alexander of Menstrie . On the whole , we must pronounce him about the most unfortunate Scot of his time . Better for his 34 FORD - ALEXANDER Sir Roger De Coverley, 1567?—1640 TOLAND, JOHN, URQUHART, SIR THOMAS,
... our long acquaintance with Alexander of Menstrie . On the whole , we must pronounce him about the most unfortunate Scot of his time . Better for his 34 FORD - ALEXANDER Sir Roger De Coverley, 1567?—1640 TOLAND, JOHN, URQUHART, SIR THOMAS,
Pàgina 36
... whole . His " Avrora " and minor pieces are elegant and musical . There is less of conceit in the merely conceitful sense than was common with contemporaries , and if you only persevere , opalescent hues edge long passages otherwise ...
... whole . His " Avrora " and minor pieces are elegant and musical . There is less of conceit in the merely conceitful sense than was common with contemporaries , and if you only persevere , opalescent hues edge long passages otherwise ...
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admirable ADOLPHUS WILLIAM anon beauty Ben Jonson Bunyan century character Charles Christian Church comedy contemporaries Cowley criticism diction Dictionary of National divine dramatic Earl Edinburgh Review English Language English Literature English Poetry English Poets English Prose Essays excellent fancy genius GEORGE grace HENRY Henry Vaughan History of England History of English Hobbes honour Hudibras humour imagination JAMES Jeremy Taylor John Bunyan John Dryden John Milton King Lands Letters language Latin learning less Letters lish literary Literature of Europe Lives Locke London Lord lyric Massinger ment merit mind moral National Biography nature ness never Paradise Lost passion perhaps PERSONAL philosopher Pilgrim's Progress play poem poetical poetry Pope praise Puritan reader SAINTSBURY SAMUEL satire seems sermons Shakespeare spirit style taste things THOMAS thought tion tragedy truth verse writings written wrote
Passatges populars
Pàgina 286 - MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou...
Pàgina 269 - I modestly but freely told him ; and after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, " Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found?
Pàgina 284 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Pàgina 411 - BARCLAY (ROBERT). An Apology for the True Christian Divinity AS THE SAME is HELD FORTH AND PREACHED BY THE PEOPLE, called in scorn QUAKERS...
Pàgina 235 - I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: Of April, May, of June, and July flowers.
Pàgina 259 - The want of human interest is always felt. Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again.
Pàgina 279 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Pàgina 483 - True wit is nature to advantage drest; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well exprest.
Pàgina 494 - Whate'er he did was done with so much ease, In him alone 'twas natural to please : His motions all accompanied with grace ; And paradise was open'd in his face.
Pàgina 198 - For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer; and for ten impressions, which his works have had in so many successive years, yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, Not being of God, he could not stand.